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  1. British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
  2. murder without leaving a trace on the body
  3. Burk: United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
  4. get rid of, silence, or suppress; "burke an issue"
  5. Burke is the protagonist of the Burke Series by Andrew Vachss. He is a career criminal, an orphan raised by the State who was abused throughout his childhood in state institutions and foster homes. Burke lives in New York City, always on the edges of society. ...
  6. Burke is an English variant of the Irish surname originating with de Burca from the Anglo-Normans and specifically the Hiberno-Normans. de Burca has remained the form of the name in the Irish language (Irish Gaelic). In Old French, the name means "fortified hill". ...
  7. (Burkes) Burke's Peerage publishes authoritative, in-depth historical guides to the titled families of the United Kingdom, such as Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, and many other countries. ...
  8. Variant spelling of berk; To murder by suffocation, or as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection; To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress
  9. Burke calls for “a ‘dramatistic’ approach to the nature of language,…[one] stressing language as an aspect of ‘action,’ that is, as ‘symbolic action’” (1034). ...
  10. v. To suffocate someone using a soft object that will leave little to no trace evidence (i.e. a pillow, your hands, etc). Taken from a historical crime file in which a man surnamed Burke, who ran an inn, found one of his patrons dead in thier room. ...
  11. n. a small red fragile bird with only one wing now only found in Wales but once popular in Scotland.